As the defenders abandoned the city and fled, Li Tai and his party were able to continue to advance smoothly. And before he could announce further military plans, the young disciples of the accompanying army were already rushing to enter the account and ask for battle.

"Oh? Do you already have a good strategy to defeat the enemy, and you can crisscross the river and be invincible? ”

After listening to each of these young men's statements about their demands for battle, Li Tai asked with a smile, and then raised his hand and pointed at some of the more eager phoenixes and said, "If I make you fight, which side will you attack and how will you win?" ”

"Where is the enemy, where is the sword? Is there anything to hesitate about! ”

After hearing this, several Feng replied loudly, and said with an excited face: "The general's prestige is enough to deter the eastern thief, and the last general is the pioneer of the division, just need to meet the head-on attack, and the stubborn thief will definitely scatter and flee!" ”

This answer is really a bit ridiculous, Li Tai couldn't help frowning after hearing it, but the other young disciples nodded with deep sympathy after hearing this, seeing this posture, they really believe that there is no need for any strategy and tactics when facing the enemy, and they only need to rely on the prestige of General Li to be able to drive straight into the enemy.

After seeing this scene, Li Tai couldn't help but cry and laugh. He led the young disciples here, originally to let them see the ferocity of the enemy and the cruelty of war, let them understand the truth of planning and then acting, and wash away the frivolity and restlessness in their hearts.

But now it seems that the opposite effect has been achieved, and these boys have become more frivolous and arrogant, and in their minds it seems that the thieves are completely vulnerable.

This kind of cognition is obviously absurd, even if Li Tai can scare away the opponent with his prestige, it is also based on the previous brilliant military exploits, and he has never crossed the first nine and can make people uncomfortable by eating the tenth bun directly!

However, having just experienced the defenders abandoning the city and fleeing, it is obviously not convincing to emphasize the combat effectiveness of the enemy army and the danger of battle.

After Li Tai pondered for a while, he said to several young men who asked for battle: "You are not afraid of hardships and dangers, and you have the ambition to kill thieves, it is indeed a commendable ambition." But Heluo is vast, if you need to kill the enemy vertically and horizontally, it is absolutely impossible to ride a good horse.

Once the battle begins, it is necessary to fight with all the strength and take advantage of the victory to expand the results. If the war horse is not fat and lacks blood, it will be useless. Each of you should first take off your robes and go down to the horse camp to feed the war horses, and if the horses you feed do not increase but lose their body fat, they need to be engaged in military law! ”

"General, this ......"

The young disciples didn't expect to eagerly ask for battle, but in exchange for the horse camp below, they were all a little dumbfounded for a while, stunned and at a loss.

"Go quickly!"

Being in the army, Li Tai naturally wouldn't get used to them, seeing that these boys were still a little out of shape, he directly ordered his own soldiers to take off their cronies' robes and clothes before entering, and then escorted them to the horse camp.

He is a small profit here, but he can't learn from Yuwentai's connivance with Brother Sabao, and he must be severely punished after Heqiao makes a major mistake.

War is never child's play, and any recklessness that belittles an opponent will inevitably pay a heavy price. Warm care is never an emotion that should appear in the army, these boys are going out with the army, either life or death, but they are not eating as guests, and they also want Li Tai to take a few bites of vegetables.

Because the commanders of the Fear Horse Battalion and the camp owners were afraid and did not dare to discipline them vigorously, Li Tai sent Zhang Shinu there to supervise and deter, so that these boys could be taught a lesson and truly feel the hard work of the ordinary battalion soldiers.

After sending away the few young apprentices who invited them to fight, Li Taixing came out of the camp tent and saw Li Ya standing in the ranks of the pro-soldiers, and couldn't help but be a little curious, this kid likes to toss the most on weekdays, why is he quite safe this time?

So he walked up to Li Ya, looked down at this kid and asked, "Why didn't you go with Bodhidharma and others to ask for a battle before?" ”

"They are all high-ranking governors, and they are discussing whether the military aircraft is not allowed to participate in ......."

When Li Ya heard this, her face fell, and she replied in a resentful tone, but she showed surprise again, looked up at Li Tai and said with a smile: "The general specially asked me about this, is it to allow me to be the striker of the conquest?" ”

"You get out of here and feed the horses!"

Li Tai raised his leg and kicked the kid out of the array, and pointed to Zhang Shinu, who was about to go to the horse camp, and asked him to carry the fish that slipped through the net.

Although the Yichuan line has been opened up and the team can enter the Luonan area, it does not mean that the front is all the way unimpeded.

Judging from the increase in Yichuan here, the Northern Qi Dynasty attached great importance to the gains and losses of Heluo, due to the recovery of the Henan region, and the fact that there was no northern movement before the northern movement, the war situation in the Yishui basin was not urgent, so it was not the focus of defense. And the really important place is still the Luoxi front line centered on Yiyang Jiuqu City.

Li Tai's purpose of marching into Heluo this time was not to achieve much success. Because from the perspective of the entire Eastern Expedition battle plan, he was only a partial division of the first brigade to contain the enemy's dispatch, and the main force in charge of the main attack was the main force of Guanzhong led by Yu Wentai himself.

This time, Yuwentai did not plan to lead the army into the Heluo area again, but to take advantage of the fact that the Gaoyang monarch of the Northern Qi Dynasty had not yet established his Jinyang lair.

Now due to Gao Yang's usurpation, there must still be a considerable number of Eastern Wei relics who are dissatisfied with the usurpation of the country by the Northern Qi Dynasty.

What Li Tai needed to do was to enter the Heluo area and use some military operations to attract and confine the Northern Qi garrisons around Heluo within the area, so that they could not harass and threaten the Western Wei army attacking Jinyang from the flank.

Therefore, when he entered Heluo this time, it was not the focus to conquer the city, and attracting the garrison in the Heluo area was a successful completion of the task, and of course it was better to be able to severely damage the garrison here.

The most urgent task at the moment is to get in touch with the friendly forces around Heluo as soon as possible, so as to fully grasp the dynamics of the enemy and us on the battlefield in Heluo, and to disturb the situation in Heluo as soon as possible.

If he can't make progress here, then the army in Guanzhong can't cross the river to the north. Although it was only a partial division of the first brigade, it also determined the pace of the advance of the main army to a certain extent.

After passing through Yique, Li Tai did not rashly lead his army straight to the direction of Luoyang, but sent Gao Le, Shi Jing and others to lead hundreds of elite cavalry to the west to investigate and inform the rebels of various roads in western Henan that they had returned to Heluo.

Although these rebels were nominally controlled by Li Yuan, who was in charge of Hongnong, they were extremely independent, and when Li Yuan did not personally lead his men and horses into the Heluo battlefield, Li Tai, who entered here, naturally had the right to temporarily command them.

In the previous conquest orders issued by the Chinese and foreign governments, Li Tai was temporarily appointed as the Kwantung Xingtai to control the military and political affairs of the Kwantung region, of course, this pass refers to the Hangu Pass rather than the Tong Pass, and is limited to the enemy-occupied areas within Heluo. If it is Tongguan, then it will directly be separated from Yuwendao who stayed in the pass, and if there is nothing to do with those pillar countries, then it will have to be called Shaanxi East Dao Daxingtai.

On the second day after Jingzhou's men and horses were stationed, there was an enemy movement in the direction of Luoyang in the north, and more than 3,000 Northern Qi cavalry came straight to Yique, setting up battle formations and shouting for battle several miles outside the Jingzhou military camp.

However, Li Tai only turned a blind eye to this, and ordered his troops to stick to the camp, completely ignoring the shouts of the enemy troops outside the camp, and by the way, there were many trees and flags on the mountains on both sides of Yique in the rear, creating a false impression that a large army was all over the mountains.

The more than 3,000 Northern Qi cavalry saw that the Wei army did not fight, and the plain north of Yique was not suitable for camping, so they could only leave some scouts to keep a close eye on the enemy's movements, and the other brigades could only withdraw to the rear.

In the afternoon of the third day, Shi Jing and his entourage finally returned, and when they set off, more than 300 people, one person and two horses, and when they returned, there were only more than 100 people left, and more than half of the war horses were lost.

They were attacked and killed by the Northern Qi army in the north of Yiyang, all kinds of encirclement and interception, fortunately they were full of horsepower, and fought and retreated, but it still took a long time, until the Guannan rebels learned of the situation and responded in time, they got rid of the pursuers and avoided the annihilation of the whole army.

Speaking of this trip experience, Shi Jing still has some lingering palpitations. Although he has been in the army for a long time, Yi Chuan's easy past has also made him have a certain contempt for the Northern Qi army in his heart, so he did not cover up his whereabouts when marching westward, so that the enemy army arranged a siege and killing formation around him, and surrounded and flanked in all directions.

The enemy troops on the Yiyang side were several times more than those on the Yichuan side, and there was even a huge military camp around Jiuqu City, and there were Qi people's camps and rangers almost everywhere between the mountains and valleys.

Although Shi Jing was hunted down and killed all the way, he did not forget his mission, he still carefully observed the situation around Yiyang, and after returning, he told the enemy situation in detail, which can be regarded as making up for it.

Li Tai couldn't help frowning when he heard that Yiyang was so heavily defended, so he looked at the people from western Henan who had returned with him, wanting to see what good strategies their locals had.

"The last general, Wei Xuan, has been subordinate to Li Kaifu in Yichuan for a long time, and after Li Kaifu was unfortunately killed in battle, the last general led the remnants to Guannan. The general returned to Heluo, and the masses in western Henan were jubilant, hoping to follow the general to break the thief and kill the enemy! ”

A middle-aged general said to Li Tai with his front fork hand, and his eyes were full of awe when he looked at Li Tai. Previously, Li Tai crisscrossed Heluo, and distributed a large number of materials and equipment captured in Heyang to the armies of western Henan, so that these rebels were full of gratitude to them, and they were also full of expectations for fighting side by side again this time.

Before Li Tai could ask Wei Xuan about the matter, another burly young man with a tiger head hat stepped forward, and also saluted Li Tai with his crossed hands and said: "The last general, Han Baohu, although he is still in the wild, has the courage to hunt tigers. ”